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Tread Lightly On My Memories

Posted on: February 25, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

I live in Small Town France. In a village, actually. It’s a lovely, charming village called Sergy, nestling under the Jura mountain range, and looking across (over Geneva, Switzerland) towards the Mont Blanc. Magical scenery. Four proper seasons, each lasting 3 months. The kind of place where, when it’s Spring, Spring is my favourite season. […]

Categories: Widowed and New Love, Multiple Losses

Validation Matters: Five not Three

Posted on: February 18, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

I have had a tough week. First, hearing difficult health news regarding someone I care about deeply. Then being the recipient of highly confrontational/aggressive behaviour from family friends that I cannot even begin to comprehend at this stage. Ending with the words, “do not contact us again”. I need an outlet for this extra bleuch. […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Multiple Losses

Russian Mountains

Posted on: February 11, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Last week, on Thursday 6th February, I was having “a good day”. I had been for a long swim early in the morning and felt good in the water. I had a calm-ish day planned in the beautiful office space I have on Thursdays – just a few calls planned during the day, and most […]

Categories: Child Loss, Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

Life After Death Through Three Lenses of Change

Posted on: February 4, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

In my recent experience learning about Human Dynamic Systems, one of the frameworks I was introduced to was called “Three Kinds of Change”. It posits that there are three types of change we face, and knowing what kind we are experiencing is important to helping us find appropriate ways of working with it. It occurred to me to look at aspects of…

Categories: Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

A Good Week?

Posted on: January 28, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

It’s been a good week. By most objective and subjective measures, it’s been a good week. For me. And I realise it’s been a horrendous week and few days for anyone who is newly widowed, grieving, going through date landmines, dealing with death-admin. I am not a follower of Basketball, American or any other type, but god knows I have some…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

Sticky Issues

Posted on: January 21, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

When I was turning 20, (back in the last millennium, and indeed more than a decade before its end), a few people asked me, “what do you want for your 20th birthday?” I answered, “Twenty years between now and when I am 30”. I thought it was a very clever answer. And it was also an honest answer, based on my worldview at the time. My…

Categories: Widowed, Multiple Losses

Too Many Deaths. Really. That’s Enough Now

Posted on: January 14, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

I have just come back from what should have been two lovely days away with my Medjool. My new love. My number two. (Not Second Best. Just Number Two. Subtle but Important difference).  Some of our time away was lovely – truly relaxing, soothing, stunningly beautiful, comforting, renewing, and more. And some of it was just plain horrid. For me.

Categories: Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

997, 998, 999, 1000

Posted on: January 7, 2020 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

Today is Friday 3rd January 2020. 3/1/2020 Or 1/3/2020 if you’re somewhere in North America, but that looks plain wrong to me. And anyway, that would be my dad’s birthday, 1st March. Not my uncle’s birthday, 3rd January. Both healthy, sporty, fit 81-year old men. 82 now for my uncle.  Today is 1000 days since Mike died. In about ten minutes,…

Categories: Widowed Milestones, Multiple Losses

Mixed Up Emotions

Posted on: December 31, 2019 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

I noticed Kelley Lynn put up a couple of lovely questions on her Facebook page in the run-up to Christmas. It went along the lines of:  Tell me, what/who are you missing? And if you’re joyful, then say more about that  It’s Christmas morning, and I am sitting in bed. No rush here, because for over a decade, Mike and I said to our guests,…

Categories: Widowed Holidays, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses

Pizza Toppings

Posted on: December 24, 2019 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

At home I have a big bathroom. Built and decorated by Mike. So big that it has two basins, each with a mirror above it. “His ‘n’ Hers”. Two basins are not common in European bathrooms. Houses don’t usually have the space.  In between the basins and the mirrors, stuck to the wall with blu-tack, is a yellowing, curly-edged, typed piece of…

Categories: Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed by Illness

Bah Humbug

Posted on: December 17, 2019 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

I am trying to get festive. I really am. But little things tick me off. Like Christmas decorations. Particularly the really garish ones. And the plastic snowmen. The ones in our house are okay. Right now, that’s the sum total of an undecorated Christmas tree. And fairy lights that never actually went down after Christmas 2017. Somehow they have…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Holidays, Multiple Losses

Self-Care, Help, and Letting in Comfort

Posted on: December 10, 2019 | Posted by: Emma Pearson

I have been pondering comfort, self-care, and help – what each of them is, to me, and what makes one or other easier and/or more accessible than another. Here is where I am at. And no, I have done no Googling or other research into what each of them is. Just research in my own life and experience. They are oft-used terms in Griefland – wobbly…

Categories: Widowed, Widowed Therapy, Multiple Losses, Miscellaneous

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